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tressed

American  
[trest] / trɛst /

adjective

  1. (of the hair) arranged or formed into tresses; braided; plaited.

  2. having tresses (usually used in combination).

    auburn-tressed; golden-tressed.


tressed British  
/ trɛst /

adjective

  1. (in combination) having a tress or tresses as specified

    gold-tressed

    long-tressed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of tressed

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at tress, -ed 3


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He said he feared that if he did take any of those things it would "do me damage as kidneys and liver would have been gravely tressed."

From Fox News ● Sep. 5, 2020

Will first daughter Ivanka Trump, currently house-hunting with husband Jared Kushner in Georgetown, get her blond locks tressed by a lowly worm local, or will she still go to New York’s notorious French-born Julien Farel?

From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2016

With these advantages Rundstedt has organized a fluid defense, well but tressed on its front by strong points, backed by forces that could be whipped to any threatened point.

From Time Magazine Archive

Felicity tossed her golden tressed head and tried to look angry, but made a dismal failure of it.

From The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The eager charioteers stand round and pat their chests with clapping hollowed hands, and comb their tressed manes.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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